My Three Sons

2009-04-30T21:44:00.000-07:00

Here's our new family picture! These were taken on Easter Sunday! We clean up pretty good, huh!! :)

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They had to do the funny pictures too!! Oh, they are all character's - they didn't have to practice too much to do these !!! ;)

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Don't you just love that smile ------ oh, the orthodontist is going to love Joshua!!!! :)

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Picture from Easter sunday - these are my niece's Tayler, and Madi.

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These are some pictures of our trip to the Kalahari over spring break. Was a fun time with the boys'!!

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This was a huge rope obstacle course that was 4 levels high. We all had to wear harnasses.

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THis is the rock climging wall that the boys' had a great time climging, again, and again, and again! Um, needless to say, Mom opted NOT to do this!! :)

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Each of the boys' painted these soveigner's - Micah did a lion, Joshua did a frog, and Caleb did a mug. They all did a GREAT job on them!!

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Here's Micah on the wave machine. It's a lot harder than it looks - well, that 's what I hear.... :)

2008-11-29T19:16:00.000-08:00

O.K. I've FINALLY updated this blog!!! It's been so many months, that it's taken me the last 2 hours updating this!! We are all doing very well, and the fall has just flown by. I can't believe that Thanksgiving is now passed and we are heading into the Christmas holiday!! As most of you know we decided to homeschooling the boys' again this fall, and thank the Lord = it has been going very well!! The pictures below are from one of our field trips we took this fall - horseback riding out at Wild River State Park. We are involved with a homeschool co-op at First Isanti Baptist Church were we meet every other Tuesday and the boys' get to take certain classes and be around other homeschool children their age. They have extremely enjoyed this! Well enjoy the next several pages of pictures, and hopefully it won't take me another 6 months to add more!! lol

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Joshua and his first front tooth - GONE!!! He had to have the other one pulled out this past Monday because the permanent tooth was coming in up above it - as you can see even in this fuzzy picture.

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Caleb - oh, he's so photogenic!!!! He's a riot on this horse!!!! You should have been there!!! lol

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Micah and his horse. They have ridden enough at summer camp that this was a piece of cake!!

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Joshua riding his horse! I tell ya, they're all pro's at this!!

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We went to a "Haunted Corn Maze" with our frineds Jeremy and Michelle, and a total of 5 boys'!!! Of course they loved scaring us Mom's just as much as the people hiding in the corn!! lol

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Micah has decided to take some time off from Tae Kwon Do, and take up violin lessons for awhile. We are so proud of him! He's been practicing, and practicing Silent Night to play for our Christmas Eve program, and for Grandpa and Grandma Perry!!

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I got up one morning to see this written on my white board in the kitchen. It's my first note written by Joshua! It's precious!!!!

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This fall the boys' and I had the opportunity to head to Colorado with Grandpa and Grandma Perry, and Uncle Matthew for 2 weeks. We saw some of the most beautiful country, rock hunted, went to old abandoned gold mines and one that is still in operation, amuzement park, and lots of other fun stuff. The following pictures are just some of the many that we took!

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Grandpa's shadow.....Micah

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Micah was our professional rock hunter - all the way from his safety glasses to grandpa's pick !!

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Our adventures in rock hunting. I think we brought back as much as our van would hold!!

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The last picture here is of Pikes Peak, off in the distance.

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This is a quarry where they are still mining, and they had the backs of these earth movers and one of their wheels here just to get an idea of how big these things are!! They are huge!!!

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We went to so many neat places. This is an old abanden mining area.

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Some pictures from this Halloween. We had friends over and the guys took the kids' out tricker treating and we ladies stayed and handed out over 400 gospel tracks.

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Mommy and Micah with our "fishy's" !!!

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Mr. Brad sharing his water with Annika!! And Annika helping the guys taking the soccer net down!! What would we do without our good friends!!

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Some pictures when the guys' went to Chuckie Cheese's for the afternoon! They had a good time hangin' out!!

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Matthew had the wonderful privilege to spend his "30th" birthday with us this past summer. We didn't want to let this opportunity slip by without throwing him a party that he wouldn't soon forget!!! We had a "LITTLE" fun!!!!!

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He really had issue's with the candles. We sat there and thought for sure that he had them all blown out, and then what to our surpise happened!! -- they magically re-lite!!! Oh, did I forget to mention that they were trick candles!!! Oh, we had fun!!!!! Love you Matthew!!!!

2008-11-29T17:17:00.000-08:00

Oh, Matthew!!! He's so easy to pick on , and isn't that my job as the older sister!!! Well, I took the pleasure of finding him some very "UNIQUE" over the hill, gifts! I think over all he was pretty impressed with them. lol

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The gifts just kept getting better!!! These were life - changing for him!! The farting key chain, and what every person needs over the age of 30 = " Over - the - hill " stain cover-up , to keep your whities white!!!! lol

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He did get some normal presents!! lol

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This summer - around the 4th of July - Grandma and Grandpa Perry and Uncle Matthew were able to come for a visit. So, here awaits the boys', watching and LISTENING for Grandpa's diesel truck! lol Was a great time!!!

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Annika, trapped inside the "ball" = needless to say, it didn't slow her down any!! lol

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These are some pictures of Tae Kwon Do testing this past summer. Caleb and Micah were testing at this time for their low orange belts. Since then, Micah has decided to do Violin lessons, and Caleb is still doing Tae Kwon Do and testing for his green belt in 2 weeks.

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Pictures from soccer this summer. Brad was able to coach Joshua's team!! Was fun to watch them each week!

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The boys' did a lot of camping this summer - in the back yard!!

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Pictures from Fathers' Day, 2008.

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Some pictures from our fishing this summer!

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Micah and Annika back in May of this year! They both have gotten bigger!!

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Here are some of the pictures when we first got our puppy - "Molly" !! Oh, you should see her now!!

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Some pictures from this summer.

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Micah - using his "bear" chair as a pillow!!!!

2008-04-01T22:11:00.000-07:00

Thank the Lord, this past Sunday, March 30th, 2008, Micah was baptized. Here are the pictures. It was such a blessing to see him follow the Lord's commandment! He was so excited ......I hope you enjoy these Dad and Mom!!

2008-02-05T14:45:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody!!! I haven't forgotten about the whole blogging thing - it's actually because of our computer. I always downloaded pictures from our memory card from our camera, and now the slot in the front of the computer, is not reading my card anymore. So, now I have to figure how to hook my camera up directly to the computer - and suggestions would be great!! So, until them, everyone will just have to read my babbling!!!!!

Things have been busy since Christmas time...........It seemed like it took me awhile to recover from all of the Holiday Festivities this year! It was great having all my family here from Ohio, and my sister and her new husband, up here for a few days.

The boys' are all doing really well in school - and they still enjoy it, and they're over halfway done!! We had all there conferences last week with their teachers, and it was a blessing to hear that they are doing good academically, and also in there behavior. We want them to be different - in a good way - and that's what each of their teachers said of them.

Caleb has a 3 month substitute - since his full-time teacher just had a baby, and his name is Mr. Aulm. He taught 6th grade for 35 years at North Branch, and just retired last year, only to come back and substitute - I guess when you've taught for that long, it's in your blood. So, he was able to give us some insight on what we have to expect next year, with Caleb going into the middle school ----more prayers will be going upwards!! But, we trust that all the sound teachings from the Word of God that we are trying to instill in him and the other boys' at home, will help to be his stronghold when he's there admid the things of the world. Caleb just finished 2 pretty big projects at school - 1st was his report on George Washington; He has to write a paper, and also make a model of him out of a bottle. Was real fun!!! The 2nd was a pop-up book of our solar system, which he did a really cool job on! Both of these projects were mostly 95% done at school. On his George Washington report, he had a hand-written paper, and also a 5 point slideshow presentation that he did on the computer - we were able to see that at conferences - was neat!! I'm proud to say that he got a 95% on the George Washington report, and a 46/50 on his Science project.

Micah is Micah. Whatelse is there to say!! He is doing excellent in his school work, with the only complaint is that he sometimes likes to show off & talk! Huh@@@!!!! Big suprise!!! lol........We did have a little discussion about that, but overall it's just part of his character that he has to keep in check!! Micah loves his technology classes, and taking his AR test - which he's above his goal already, which means he is getting something done. Micah had a project this last quarter, in which he had to do a family geneology report on - so he did it on our German roots!! He had to research the country and also make a doll that showed how the Germans dressed back in the 1800- 1900's. He was proud that he got an "A" on it!!!

Joshua, Joshua, Joshua!! I'm glad that Kindergarden has only been every other day this year -- just for Mom's sake. Oh, how I miss him - my baby!!! He loves his teacher Mrs. Hendrick's - and everytime we've spoken with her, she always comments on what a sweet, polite, little boy we have!! He's so excited now, because they have finally started reading! He comes home with a new book each night, and the first thing he has out of his backpack before he's even in the door - is his envelope with his new book. I'm so EXCITED, because he's so EXCITED!! It's neat to see them all grow!!

As for Mom and Dad!! Well, we're just trying to keep the big circus going. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm coming..........or going.............but they say that these are some of the best years' of our lives, and one day we'll be wishing for the hecticness again - running to B-ball games, going to kid's club, going to tae kwon doe lessons, and so on!! Sometimes it's hard to slow down long enough to let all these fun times sink in........It's amazing the older I get, the quicker time fly's by.............does anyone else think that, or is it just me? I'm so thankful to be able to be here everyday the boys' get on and off the school bus, and so thankful for the precious time that we do have with the boys' - well I said that this was going to be my babbling.....and sure enough it turned out to be just that!! Hope you all are doing well, and hopefully I'll have some new pictures to post soon!!

2007-12-17T19:57:00.000-08:00

This past Sunday night was our Sunday School Christmas program. Caleb and Micah were "Kings", and Joshua was a "Shephard". They did a great job remembering their lines, and also singing their songs!!

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This past Saturday night, my best friend from church - Michelle and I, had a Christmas Party. It was suppose to be held at our house, but since our whole family ended up with the flu earlier in the week, we were blessed to have another good friend - Andrea - offer to open up her house, so we could still go ahead with the party. We ended up with 23 women who came out. It was such a wonderful time of fun, food, and fellowship! We're already making plans for next year!! Lord willing, we won't get the flu!!!

2007-12-09T21:12:00.000-08:00

This past Sunday we had our annual "Caroling" at church. We had close to 50 people that came out in the afternoon. Afterwards, we invited everyone back to our house for sloppy joes. Well, we ended up with 42 people that came back for food and fellowship. Your probably wondering how we fit everyone in here - let's just say that we were all nice and "cozy". It turned out to be a great time with everyone, and we are planning on extending the invitation next year too!!

2007-12-09T21:03:00.000-08:00

We have had 2 good-size snow storms within the last week. We probably have over a foot of snow between the 2 of them - well, last Tuesday, we got dumped on again. Brad went out around 10:30 p.m. to snow blow the driveway, and look who got up to go help Daddy?!! Joshua is our "big" helper. He loves to help with anything!! When Daddy and him were all done with the snow shoveling, they came in and warmed their "tummy's" with some hot chocolate that Mommy had waiting for them.

2007-12-09T20:56:00.000-08:00

We took our family pictures in front of the church again this year, and this is one of the one's that turned out really cute, of the boys'. You will all probably be seeing this again in our christmas card.

2007-11-26T20:23:00.000-08:00

Meet Joshua's newest "Best Friend" !! Over the Thanksgiving Holiday, we watched Pastor David and Casey's dog - named "Lincoln". Well, Joshua and him were pretty much buddies from the get - go!! This poor dog was with us for almost 3 full day's --- we had to send him home to get some rest!! ( the dog, that is! LOL ) And NO, we aren't getting a puppy!!

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To the average person, this picture just looks like a lot of blankets and pillows on the floor, but to Mommy, they mean a whole lot more. Every night either Brad or I, lay out the blanket and pillows on the floor for the daycare kids that arrive at 5:15 a.m. - well, this night Joshua - all on his own - went and layed out all the blanket and pillows for Mommy - He is such a sweet little man, with a huge heart and always willing to help!!!!

2007-11-26T20:05:00.000-08:00

Oh, these could be really good "blackmail" pictures someday!!! lol The boys' cousins - which might I say, are all GIRLS!! - love trying to get the boys' to play dress up with them. Well, this particular night, they succeeded!! They would die if they knew I was putting these on our blog!! lol But I wanted to share these with you , and hopefully you all got a kick out of them like we did!

2007-11-01T19:06:00.000-07:00

We've had a really unusaul fall here in MN. Here is Micah and Dad playing football in October. Usually the cold is starting to set in. We ended up mowing our grass more this fall, then we did all summer.

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Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Prall
September 29th, 2007

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Some more family pictures! Wow, we really don't look to bad, when we get all cleaned up!! lol

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Our "New" expanded family!! My, oh, my how the family keeps growing. We thank the Lord for Doug, and thank Him for bringing the two of them together!

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More pictures of the wedding

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It's so hard to pick and choose pictures. We have sooo many good one's, but I think these are some of the best. The two lower pictures are of Brad and Grandma Perry ( my Dad's Mom - my Grandmother), and the other is of the Mothers'.

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Pictures from Buhl Park in Hermitage. We went their before the wedding. Couldn't of asked for a more beautiful day!!

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Oh the joy's of country living!! The boys' had a wonderful time exploring and just being boys' at Grandma and Grandpa Perry's house. Their is a little stream that runs in the back of Mom and Dad's property, and the boy's just loved going back there looking for frogs, fish, and anything else that moved. They also just had a blast building little Tee-Pee's, out of the twigs that had fallen from some of the tree's out back! We had a great time!!!!

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Grandpa grilling his delicious BBQ Chicken!! YUMMY!!

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Joshua on his first day of Kindergarden! He was so excited to finally be able to go to school just like big brothers!

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The boys on their first day of school!! JOSHUA couldn't wait to start Kindergarden!!